How to download directory from web

abd_bela · 09-03-2008, 09:16 AM

Hi,
I tried to download directories from the web via wget, but i got just index.html
for example I tried
wget -r http://zekr.cvs.sourceforge.net/zekr/Zekr/src

which scontains several files and directories.

I tried recursive = on in /etc/wgetrc, I got a lot of index.html like
index.html?sortby=author index.html?sortby=date ??????

Something else than wget ??

thanks for help
bela

Dutch Master · 09-03-2008, 10:34 AM

Try

Code:

wget -r http://zekr.cvs.sourceforge.net/zekr/Zekr/src/*

No guarantees though...

[edit]wildcards (*) are not supported in HTTP, so it's not gonna work. Like I said: no guarantees...[/edit]

amani · 09-03-2008, 10:45 AM

That is not the way.

Your approach should be like

'you want all pdfs in a webpage up to 3 levels deep'

'you want everything in a webpage up to n levels deep'

# man wget

knudfl · 09-03-2008, 11:30 AM

Dutch Master : works fine for this
wget -r ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.slac...e-12.1/extra/*
and placing everything nice in
/home/knudfl/ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.slackware.com\
/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/extra/"folders"/"files"

Can also make a "select" with e.g.
wget -r ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.slac...-12.1/extra/b*

Regards